Screwless angle-bar and anticreeping device for rail-joints.



J. FRISGH.

SGREWLESS ANGLE BAR AND ANTIGREEPING DEVIGE FOR RAIL JOINTS.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 26, 1913. RENEWED APR. 2, 1914.

Patented June 23,1914.

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5 (5m Mm JOHN FRISGH, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

SCREWLESS ANGLE-BAR AND ANTICREEPING DEVICE FOR RAIL-JOINTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Application filed April 26, 1913, Serial No. 763,785. Renewed April 2, 1914. Serial No. 829,138.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN FRIsoH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, California, have invented a new and useful Screwless Angle-Bar and Anticreeping Device for Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to make a rail joint without the use of nuts and which will not creep or become loosened; and my invention consists of the novel features herein shown, described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective of a rail joint embodying the principles of my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view. Fig. 3 is an inside elevation looking in the direction indicated by the arrows 3 in Figs. 2 and 4:. Fig. 4: is a cross section on the lines 44 of Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4..

The rails 1 and 2 are of the usual form and have bases 3, webs 4 and treads 5. The fish plates 6 and 7 are of the usual form and fit the webs 4: between the bases 3 and the treads 5. Screwless bolts or pins 8 are inserted through the fish plates 6' and 7 and rails 1 and 2. The short clamping plates 9, one on each side of the meet' g ends of the rails, fit against one fish plate and against the heads of the pins 8 to hold the pins in place without nuts and to hold the fish plate in place and grip the rail. The heads of the bolts are recessed into the clamping plates to hold the clamping plates from creeping longitudinally relative to the rails, or vice versa. The second pair of short clamping plates 10 fit against the opposite side of the other fish plate, there being holes to receive the pins 8 to prevent creeping. Angle plates 11 and 12 extend integrally from the lower edges of the clamping plates 9 and 10 outwardly, downwardly and inwardly around the bases 3 and meet under the vertical centers of the rails, there being notches 13 in the outer edges of the angle plate 12 to receive spikes. Each tie plate 14 comprises a base 15 fitting on top of the tie 16 and under the angle plates, the ears l7 and 18 extending laterally from the base 15 to receive the spikes 19 and 20, the arm 21 extending upwardly and inwardly between the ears to embrace the angle plate,

the abutment 22 extending upwardly from the opposite edge of the base 15, and the flange 23 extending inwardly from the upper edge of the abutment, there being a space between the angle plate and the abutment to receive the driven wedge 24, said driven Wedge having notches 25 to register with the notches 13, when the wedge has been driven tightly into place, and then the spikes 26 are inserted downwardly through the notches l3 and the notches 25. The driven wedges hold the rails firmly gripped and the spikes hold the parts to the ties, so that the rails cannot creep relative to the ties.

The fish plates connect the rails together, the screwless pins connect the fish plates to the rails, the clamping plates and angle plates embrace the bases of the rails and hold the pins in place and connect through the pins to the rails, the wedges hold the clamping plates against the rails and the spikes hold the wedges in place and connect the rails to the ties.

I claim:

In a rail joint the combination with rails and fish plates, of screwless pins inserted through the fish plates and rails, clamping plates and angle plates fitting the ends of the-pins and holding the fish plates in place and embracing the bases of the rails, a base under the angle plates, spikes holding one side of the base to the tie, an arm extending from one side of the base against one of the angle plates, an abutment extending from the other side of the base, a flange extending from the upper side of driven wedge between the abutment and the angle plate, there being registering notches in the angle plate and in the driven wedge, and spikes through the notches into the tie.

JOHN FRISCH.

Witnesses:

JAMES PARIZEK, CLARENCE J. WILLIAMS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G."

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